The freight train stands still at first, all owing readers tocount the cars, name their colours and iden tify their functions.Then the train picks up speed, zooming across the page in a blur ofcolour, speed and sound.

Ming Lo's wife is angry. The couple live beside a big mountainwhich causes them no end of trouble. Shadows fall over theirgarden. Rocks fall through their roof. And it is always raining."Husband," says Ming Lo's wife, "you must move the mountain so thatwe may enjoy our house in peace." But how can a man as small asMing Lo move something as large as a mountain? Maybe the villagewise man can help. This whimsical literary folktale is set inChina.

奥莉微多才多艺，鬼灵精怪的她，对任何事情都有自己的一套想法。而红色、魄、黑色是属于奥莉薇的经典色彩，深受全世界各地大朋友小朋友的欢迎。 奥莉薇是一只小猪，她擅长很多事情，要说*拿手的一件事就是把人累昏，甚至常常把自己也累昏！她会涂妈妈的口红、穿上妈妈的高跟鞋照镜子，还会吓弟弟。要是出门，她还会把所有的衣服都拿出来穿一遍。晴天妈妈会带她去海边，她会把自己晒成一条大热狗；而下雨天，她则会去参观博物馆。她喜欢直直走到德加的 《芭蕾排演》面前，那是她*喜欢的一幅画，她幻想自己有一天也能成为一名芭蕾舞演员。不过有一张画她老是搞不懂，就是 波拉克的《秋天的韵律 30号》，她对妈妈说，这样的画，我大概只要五分钟，就可以画一幅一模一样的。回到家里，她就真的在墙上画了起来

小老鼠亚历山大总是被人追打，而他的朋友发条老鼠威利却是小女孩安妮喜欢的玩具。亚历山大羡慕极了，真希望自己也能变成一只发条老鼠，被人抱着，被人爱。可就在魔法蜥蜴要帮他实现愿望的时候，他却改变了主意…… Illus. in full color. "Eye-catching, boldly colored collagesillustrate this classic 'grass is always greener' story in which alive mouse is envious of his mechanical counterpart."--"Booklist."

An African-American child resents and then misses a little foster brother.One day my momma told me, "You know you're gonna have a little friend come stay with you." And I said, "Who is it?" and "For how long?" That's when Stevie moved in with his crybaby self. He played with my toys and broke them, and he left dirty footprints all over my bed. But then Stevie left again, and I missed him. I missed playing Cowboys and Indians on the stoop and watching cartoons in the morning. Maybe. . .just maybe, Stevie wasn't so bad after all.Notable Children's Books of 1940-1970 (ALA)"Best of the Best" Children's Books 1966-1978 (SLJ)1978 Lewis Carroll Shelf AwardSociety of Illustrators Gold MedalChildren's Books of 1969 (Library of Congress)Children's Books of the Year 1969 (CSA) Black Americans - Minority Groups List (BL)Notable Books for the Portrayal of the Black in Children's Literature (Top of the News)Select Children's Books of 1969 (Publishers Weekly)Brooklyn Art Books for Children 1974 无论是独生子女

When the young mouse Nicolas sets out across the great meadow alone in search of ripe red berries, he is grabbed up by the claws of a huge bird and carried high into the sky. But that is only the beginning of Nicolas's adventure. How he gets the berries he was hoping to find, and learns to trust the very creatures he thought were his enemies, makes this Leo Lionni fable one that young children will want to hear again and again. Originally published in 1987, and unavailable in any edition for a decade, this book's theme of not judging an entire species by the bad behavior of one has a special resonance with today's reader. "From the Hardcover edition."

《小岛》首次出版于1946年，之后一直广受读者喜爱。它以独一无二的魅力夺得了1947年凯迪克金奖，被称为美国出色的童书之一。如潮的好评与随之而来的惊人发行量，更是让《小岛》放射出耀眼的光芒，在图画书的历史上写下了浓重而光辉的一笔。 在充满诗情画意的《小岛》中，平和亲切的叙述文字和精美的绘画相映生辉，使小岛一下子在我们眼前活了起来。开阔的远景和逼真的近景相互交织，与惟妙惟肖的动植物一起打造出富有层次的海岛世界，让读者仿佛置身于小岛之上，徜徉于海天之间…… Depicts the changes that occur on a small islandas the seasons come and go, as day changes to night, and as a stormapproaches.

这本早出版于1950年的经典图画故事书，经过了半个多世纪的时间，仍然是许多孩子的*！ 它讲述了一直名叫Petunia的鹅的故事。 Petunia是一只笨鹅，有一天，她捡到一本书，夹在翅膀下面，认为自己充满了智慧而非常骄傲。 马来找她看病：牙疼怎么办？ Petunia认为只要把牙拔掉就可以了。马被吓跑了。 小猫爬到树上下不来了。Petunia组织动物们叠罗汉一般地去营救，结果动物们摔得头晕眼花。 看，那是谁的包裹？动物们打开了，砰！一盒子爆竹爆炸了。看着小猪、小羊、黄牛浑身贴着膏药和绷带，是不是很好笑。 同时，Petunia的书也被炸开了，她看到前所未见的东西。哦，原来还有这么多不认识的，原来书是用来读的，原来智慧在这里！ When Roger Duvoisin first introduced children to his proud and silly goose, Petunia, in 1950, it was love at first sight. Those children have grown up, but Pe

Vivid paintings by Shari Halpern and light verse by Philemon Sturges take readers through the roaring world of rumbling trucks and reveal each truck's special job.

Once there lived a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster who had grown too old to be useful to their masters. Because their masters want to get rid of them, they run away. They meet on the road and decide to go to Bremen-Town to be street musicians. Soon, they discover a cozy cabin occupied by robbers. The four friends have an idea and manage to scare the robbers away by making the loudest music they can. Now they can settle into a new home.

Now in Dragonfly: a lively, empowering story about Brenda's knotted-up, twisted, nappy hair and how it got to be that way! Told in the African-American "call and response" tradition, this story leaps off the page, along with vibrant illustrations by Joe Cepeda. Winner of a Parenting Reading Magic Award

池塘里有一条小鱼和一只蝌蚪，他们形影不离。慢慢地，蝌蚪变成了青蛙，并且离开池塘看到了外面的世界。他跟鱼讲述了自己新奇的见闻，鱼也开始憧憬起外面的世界来。有一天，他终于鼓足勇气，爬上了岸…… Illus. in full color. A modern fable of a minnow who wants tofollow his tadpole friend--who becomes a frog--onto land.

How did those enormous dinosaur skeletons get inside the museum? Long ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Then, suddenly, they died out. For thousands of years, no one knew these giant creatures had ever existed. Then people began finding fossils -- bones and teeth and footprints that had turned to stone. Today, teams of experts work together to dig dinosaur fossils out of the ground, bone by fragile bone. Then they put the skeletons together again inside museums, to look just like the dinosaurs of millions of years ago.

Originally published in 1973, this is the offbeat fable of acity mouse who visits his peaceful country cousins and tells themabout Mardi Gras in the city. The country mice are inspired to havetheir own Mardi Gras. And at first, it is fun wearing their maskswith sharp teeth and tusks and scaring each other, but after awhile, they begin believing that they really are ferociousanimals. Leo Lionni's winsome mice cavort across big double-page spreadsof oil paintings and tell a story about what is real and what isnot that is just right for preschoolers. Reissued in hardcover in2003, it now makes its debut in Dragonfly paperback.

Choco was a little bird who lived all alone. He wished he had a mother, but who could his mother be? "Just right for the preschool group or beginning reader."--Kirkus Reviews, pointer review. "Young listeners will be charmed by the book's humor, warmth, and surprise ending."--Horn Book. Full color. Age 3-6.